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This Week's Free Lab Radio - Piercing Brightness by Shehzad Dawood

Writer and musician Kirk Lake has written a radio version of artist Shezad Dawood's UK film Piercing Brightnessespecially for Free Lab Radio tonight 11pm.

Piercing Brightness is a 2013 science fiction set in Preston, Lancashire directed by visual
artist Shezad Dawood. Dawood chose to set the film, inspired by the sounds of Acid Mother's temple, in Preston as it is the place where more UFO sightings are reported in the whole of the UK.Although the film was
commissioned as a public art project, its starting
point was Shezad’s longstanding interest in the
music and the approach of Makoto Kawabata and Acid
Mothers Temple. “All of my music is sounds that I hear
from the cosmos - I just tune in and reproduce them,
like a radio receiver. I don’t think about my music. My daily struggle is to become a better, more faithful
receiver.” Dawood also states that he uses the approach of receiving’:

"Feeling a place by listening,
chatting, recording, reading, replaying, letting
the brain put things in and out of order,
layering, hiding and making explicit, distorting
and laying bare" (Piercing Bightness sleeve notes).

The soundtrack to the film features Acid
Mothers Temple, Mordant Music, Alexander Tucker and Decomposed
Orchestra and Raed Yassin and Omar Dewachi. The sound Design was by Tom Drew and we feature a couple of remixes at the end of the show tonight by Acid Man, a previous guest of ours on ResonanceFM. The
album appeared in Nov '13 as a vinyl, limited at 540 copies with
artwork on the inner sleeve, 40 of which had a unique signed,
screen printed cover by Dawood. The Outer sleeve was 280gsm white reverse board with
custom gold sticker, stamped and numbered by hand. Inner sleeve: 140gsm
coated card, black and white printed with sleeve notes by Kate Parker
and track listings to one side, and film stills to the other.